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[katallison]

Partly because je suis un lemming, and partly because I've enjoyed responding to other people's, and partly because my memory sucks and I'd love to have blurry areas filled in, and partly because I need some distraction from uber-stressful RL stuff:

Part of being on Livejournal.com is inevitably gaining a number of LJ buddies. Unfortunately, as time wears on, it's easy to forget where all of them came from. Post this in your journal and have your friends respond with how they recall first 'meeting' you.

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[darthrami.livejournal.com]

I met you and then fell off the bed. d'oh

[katallison.livejournal.com]

::hooting:: You know, people who weren't there are going to read this and get entirely the wrong impression. (Not that that's a problem or anything. *g*)

[luminosity]

You answered mine earlier, and I know you're right. It was HL. Last Set Before Closing. Sigh. I still have that bookmarked, and whenever things get too fluffy.... :)

[katallison.livejournal.com]

And you know what, I'd actually forgotten the E-Mail of Infamy that you mentioned in response to me on your LJ! *g* But now that you've reminded me, I recall being all vicariously "ooh ouch ouch ouch" on your behalf and then being impressed with how you handled the whole thing.

Also, I remember the fisting story. *g* I don't remember the title precisely, but I do remember the story, oh yes.

(Laying on of Hands! Right?)

[tracy-rowan.livejournal.com]

Blame Highlander for me, darlin'. In fact, I recall the first time we actually met face-to-face. Snoozie and I picked you up at the McDonald's in Andersonville, as I recall. I think I remember telling you to look for someone who looked like a Sumo wrestler because I had long hair then and wore it in a topknot. Where did we end up going that day? I think I remember it was hot and sunny, and if I'm not mistaken there was some sort of festival going on in Andersonville that day.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Oh, I remember that day--yeah, it was the Andersonville Whatchamacallit Fair, and I walked up to the McDonalds on Balmoral, all atremble at the thought of meeting you. We'd had quite a bit of correspondence on the Lance-list before that, and you and SVE were like these iconic Fannish Goddess figures to me. (You *are* still goddesses, of course, but in a less-iconic, more-earthy kind of way. *g*)

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

I don't actually know how we met, oddly enough. I have the sense that when I came to my first Escapade (2002) and met you in person, I already knew who you were; I had a vague sense of you being some kind of BNF from fandoms I hadn't been in (XF, HL)...but I have no idea how I came to know your name, or how we first interacted. When I got home, I found your blog at mrks.org, and that was pretty much that. :-)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

You know, I have a similar story, though earlier than 2002. I think I knew *of* Kat, and then I met her, at one Escapade or another... I don't really remember! It's kinda fannish osmosis - just a gradual merging until you go "haven't I always known you?"

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

I read Heavy Bag and was instantly enamored. I read End of the Road and wrote you a mash note. Someone mentioned (maybe bethbethbeth?) that you were now on LJ and I rushed to friend you. I met you at ConneXions and discovered you're lovely in person, too. Even if down deep I imagiend you'd look like your icon. ::shrug:: (Patti Smith,is it?)

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Aw! I duck my head and blush at the kind words. And believe me, I wish I looked like the Patti Smith (yup, you're right) icon, but then *she* doesn't look like that anymore either, so ... *g*

[reginagiraffe]

Well, I've admired you from afar for a long time but I finally got to meet you at ConnX 2004. Mmmmmmm, tapas.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

::revelling in the memory of the tapas...::

We must do that again, yes indeed.

[katie-m.livejournal.com]

I think I friended you after reading The End of the Road. (I've been given to understand that my impression of dS, being based almost completely on your fic and Speranza's, may be, um, a little idiosyncratic. Someday I should really watch the show.)

[katallison.livejournal.com]

That would be a very excellent thing, yes. *g* And it's not like it's a hardship or anything! (Well, apart from the getting hold of season 3/4 tapes, which can be a bit of a pain, although they're promising DVDs out in Sept.)

And you're one of the people whom I've been remiss in reading and friending back; I finally just went over to your LJ and greatly enjoyed what seem to me (Stargate ignoramus) to be very intelligent comments about that show.

[askye.livejournal.com]

I read your fic and I don't think I sent feedback (bad me!) and then we met through #discourse or one of ds communities.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

That's probably it, yeah -- although I think I also followed you for a while on b.org (where I lurk deeply) before we actually met up.

Escapade

[maygra.livejournal.com]

Had to be. 98? 99? And there was much mutual sqeeing as i recall.

hmm...I don't think much has changed since then. {G}

Re: Escapade

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Yup, Escapade it was, oh blessed blessed event. And yup, the happy squeeing continues, and I trust shall continue to do for a long long time. ::hugging you::

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

I think Carol invited you over to watch vids. We were all in the basement and the doorbell didn't work so it was a little touch and go there for a while.

Several years later, I managed to make you eat my famous ostrich blueberry stir fry and you didn't even complain.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Man, I was so freaked out at that first visit--I don't handle the meeting-new-people thing at all well, but you and Carol were both so charming and easygoing that my freakedness retreated rapidly.

And the ostrich blueberry stirfry ... um ... "unforgettable" is the word I'm looking for, I think. *g*

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Well, I knew who you were before VVC 2003 because your LJ was always getting rec'd - but I think the actual meeting was there. Which is appropriate because that is where I met everyone I know in fandom (aside from Lum). Well almost everyone.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

I can't remember who it was now (and I think it was a plural "who") at Vividcon who kept saying to me, "You must meet Sisabet! She's so cute! So funny! She's *adorable*!"

And they were absolutely right.

[barkley.livejournal.com]

I started reading your blog because it was so enjoyable. I think I met you for the first time one morning at the first Vividcon and I said something silly like "I really enjoy your blog!" and then I ran off because I'm not good with the follow through conversation. *g*

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Oh, neither am I! But we must actually do some conversation at some future con, or, y'know, exchange deep meaningful hand gestures, or something. Your LJ is a constant treat and I truly dig hearing what's on your mind and going on in your life.

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

I blame Mulder. :)

Also, it was so cool to get to meet you at Connexions and get to admire your bone structure.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

One can *always* blame Mulder, and for that we must be grateful to him. More grateful than Scully probably is.

And I insist, my dear Alphonse, your bone structure is far more admirable than mine!

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

IIRC, I sent you a loc on "Revenant" out of the blue. But, shamefully (and commonly, for me), I can't remember when we actually first met face to face. My memory has always stunk for things like actual events, sadly.

I'm thinking of you and the uber-stressful stuff, and I have my fingers crossed and all good hopes going your way.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

You sent me the most goddamned amazing LOC on Revenant -- I was *blown away*, and sort of incoherent with gratitude, and I think we corresponded for a while before we finally met, which was (I'm pretty sure) Connexions '98, where I met a whole lot of people for the first time. In fact, we roomed together, and that was the famous occasion where I realized at the last minute that Daylight Savings had gone into effect the morning of the art auction, and managed to tear back to the room and wake you up *just* in time to get there. Good times. *g*

(And thanks so much for the good wishes--I've got some updates and will post sometime soon--)

[meri-oddities.livejournal.com]

Now that I'm thinking about it, I remember going for coffee with you early one morning at Escapade. I also remember eating breakfast, again pretty early, with you and Marcelle at a Z-con.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

You and Maygra are my early-a.m. homies at cons, and I will always think of you with a giant cup o' Starbucks in your hand and an alert up-&-at'em look on your face. *g*

[nestra.livejournal.com]

I suspect shrift linked to your blog back in early 2001, when we all had blogs, and the blog collective was small enough that I could list everyone who had one.

And then I met you at Escapade 2003, and lo, you are nifty cool.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Ah, the blog-collective days, we few, we happy few ... man, I was just thinking about that the other day, and how incredibly quickly things all shifted over to LJ and became *enormous*.

And you, also, likewise, are the nifty cool. (Although I tell you what, those unspeakably godawful LFN stories you sometimes excerpt over on b.org may well put me in an early grave...)

[ngaio]

I'm with katie_m, read your due South stuff, notced you had a LJ, read it a couple of times, was interested, still here. I don't comment much, but I'm here!

[katallison.livejournal.com]

And I do remember your comments, which in my recollection were extremely kind and gracious.

(And that icon? I *love* it!)

[cereta.livejournal.com]

We're back at "wow, I don't know." I think we had mutual friends. I never really got into either HL or DS, but I knew a ton of people who did, so that seems likely.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

I think I first became aware of you in the context of the Symposium--you're right, we never really shared a fandom, so it was more about shared friends, and also my admiration of your general braininess and the interesting things you had to say about fandom as a phenomenon. (An admiration which continues to this day, I should add.) And I'm sure we met up initially at Escapade--one or another of those Escapades.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Early fannish blogging community building and hivemind? I liked what you had to say in general. And I think I remember first noticing a few posts you had on Buffy.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

I feel very honored by this, because I have huge respect for your intelligence and ... um, well, y'know, *smartness.* And the being literate and wise and insightful and all.

(Sentiment and gin have reduced me to gibbering...)

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Good lord, do you know I can't remember? I can't recall if it was the old TXF days (probably you'd have been introduced to me by thete1), or a mailing list. Probably the list, no? You were already well-established as a DS writer before I came along, but I knew who you were by then, so it must've been before DS.

In person? My first Escapade, right? 2002? Or did we meet before that in Minneapolis? Was that before or after Escapade?

Gah! I'm terrible at this. :p

[katallison.livejournal.com]

You know, it's so odd, but you're one of the hardest ones for me to remember just when/where/how we first met. It feels like I've known you forever; but I'm pretty sure our first in-person meeting was at Escapade, and I'd admired you and your writing well before that. Anyway, however it came about, I am endlessly thankful that it *did* come about. And I hope to hell to see you next weekend. (Will alert you to any updates.)

[eliade.livejournal.com]

I want to answer this but *my* memory sucks. But I have blurry memories of your early, wonderful e-mails, and your first (and only?) Millenium story. You were like a lovely Minnesota breeze blowing my way. I know you're going to say that Minnesota wind is chilly, but it's more like bracing, with that pre-snow tang in the air that is incomparable to anything else.

::loves you::

Hang in there & if you want to talk, I could become a phone person--just for you. ;>)

[katallison.livejournal.com]

You, my sweet, are one of the easiest for me to remember; I sent you a long, agonizingly-wrought-with-care mash note about In a Dark Time, and you sent me back the most marvelous letter, and we entered into a long long correspondence, while you were working at the bookstore; and then we met (two very shy self-conscious people) at Connexions in '98. And ever since then it's been just like -- that. ::Kat makes drunken hierophantic gesture intended to signify that::

And I will wait to call until you are recovered from hellish dental infections and Vicodin-haze -- I pet you and send you a comforting cooling Minnesota breeze.

[destina.livejournal.com]

We covered this in my LJ. Of course, the part where I fangirled you is worth repeating again. *g* *fangirls you!*

[katallison.livejournal.com]

*fangirling right backatcha, with love and squalor*

[rhi]

First through your fic, and then at Escapade back in ::counts, stares at the answer:: '98? Good Lord. Thought you were incredibly neat then and still think so now. {{hugs}} Hope real life lets up on you soon.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much, Rhi! And it's immensely cool how you've been a constant of my fannish life, someone whom it's always a delight to re-encounter on any and all occasions. {{hugs}}

[bluster.livejournal.com]

DS was my first online fandom, so that's where I first got to know who you were and how wonderfully you write. I still have a very vivid memory of reading Roots Rain.

Of course, I actually met you in person at this year's ConneXions. Someone pointed you out and I had to fight the urge to genuflect...an urge that I rarely get, I might add. :-)

[tobyfan.livejournal.com]

Well, we actually met in person this year at ConneXions for the first time, but I've been reading your stories since way back in 2001. *g* My favorite is The End of the Road, which I read while I was still on blogger.